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1 Coordinates

  1. The best URL for this page is https://wrfranklin.org/ aka httpsCOLONSLASHSLASHwrfranklinDOTorg. Some mail systems rewrite URLs in the body of messages, so my email signature block can be made wrong.

  2. Email is the best way to contact me; e.g., at web23ATwrfranklinDOTorg. I have many addresses; a surprising failure mode is a correspondent combining the user and hostname from two different addresses. Even that works when I own the domain.

2 Sponsoring conferences

For the past 2 years, I've been a private sponsor of several GIS and geometry related conferences that I've enjoyed attending, and benefited from, over the decades. They include-

  1. ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 13-16 November, Hamburg Germany.

    GIS Cup awards and travel grants.

  2. The International Geometry Summit 2023 (IGS’23) 3-7 July, Genova Italy.

    Silver sponsor.

  3. ACM SIGSPATIAL Nov 2022 Seattle.

    Sponsored the travel of ten GIS Cup winners and international students. The reasons were to raise interest in the contest, in which my students and I came first in 2018 second in 2015 and 2016, and hence raise interest in this field, and to encourage international students to continue in this field.

3 ECSE-4964/6964 Quantum Computer Programming

Poster, Syllabus, Course site.

I created this course based on my interests and skills, and taught it up to Fall 2022. It was great fun. Unfortunately it's unlikely to be offered again, because I retired (at age 70). However, ECSE is trying to run a similar course. If you are an RPI student who is interested, tell ECSE. My material is freely available for nonprofit research and education; I welcome a note if you find it useful.

4 Summary

My current big unsolved problem is to use Nvidia GPUs to compute the volumes of all the nonempty intersections between the tetrahedra in two different 3D triangulations of the same polyhedron.

Generally, I develop and implement fast parallel algorithms on very large geometric datasets in CAD and GIS. I've also modeled and processed large terrain databases, e.g., to compress, to compute hydrography and visibility, and to site observers, and compressed 5D environmental data sets. The algorithms are the fastest in their class; awards are listed below.

  1. Recent papers and talks:

    2022

    • Marcelo de Matos Menezes, Salles Viana Gomes Magalhães, Matheus Aguilar de Oliveira, W. Randolph Franklin, and Rodrigo Eduardo de Oliveira Bauer Chichorro. Fast parallel evaluation of exact geometric predicates on GPUs. J. Computer Aided Design, September 2022. Special Issue: 28th International Meshing Roundtable: Mesh Modeling for Simulations and Visualization. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010448522000616, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2022.103285.
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    • Marcelo de Matos Menezes, Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães, Matheus Aguilar, W. Randolph Franklin, and Bruno Coelho. Employing GPUs to accelerate exact geometric predicates for 3D geospatial processing. In John Krumm, Andreas Züfle, and Cyrus Shahabi, editors, Spatial Gems, volume 1, chapter 11. ACM, 2022. URL: https://www.spatialgems.net/.
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    • W. Randolph Franklin and Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães. Minimal representations of polygons and polyhedra. In John Krumm, Andreas Züfle, and Cyrus Shahabi, editors, Spatial Gems, volume 1, chapter 5. ACM, 2022. URL: https://www.spatialgems.net/.
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    • W. Randolph Franklin and Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães. Implementing simulation of simplicity for geometric degeneracies. In Spatial Gems 2022 (ACM SIGSPATIAL). November 2022.
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    2021

    • W. Randolph Franklin, Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães, and Eric N Landis. Fast 3-D Euclidean connected components. In John Krumm, editor, 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Gems (SpatialGems 2021). ACM, 2 nov 2021. URL: https://www.spatialgems.net/.
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    2020

    • W. Randolph Franklin, Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães, and Wenli Li. Siting thousands of radio transmitter towers on terrains with billions of points. 2020. arXiv 2006.16783. arXiv:2006.16783.
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    • Salles V. G. de Magalhães, W. Randolph Franklin, and Marcus V. A. Andrade. An efficient and exact parallel algorithm for intersecting large 3-d triangular meshes using arithmetic filters. J. Computer Aided Design, March 2020. online 2019-12-19. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2019.102801.
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    2019

    • W. Randolph Franklin and Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães. Minimal representations of polygons and polyhedra. In John Krumm, editor, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Gems (SpatialGems 2019). ACM, Nov 2019. URL: https://www.spatialgems.net/.
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    • Marcelo de Matos Menezes, Salles Viana Gomes Magalhães, W. Randolph Franklin, Matheus Aguilar de Oliveira, and Rodrigo E. O. Bauer Chichorro. Accelerating the exact evaluation of geometric predicates with GPUs. In Suzanne Shontz, Joaquim Peiró, and Ryan Viertel, editors, 28th International Meshing Roundtable. Buffalo, NY, USA, 16 Oct 2019. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3653101.
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    • W. Randolph Franklin and Salles V. G. de Magalhães. Computing intersection areas of overlaid 2d meshes. In IGS2019 International Geometry Summit Posters' proceedings. Vancouver, Canada, 17–21 June 2019. Solid Modeling Association.
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    2018

    • Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães, W. Randolph Franklin, and Ricardo dos Santos Ferreira. Fast analysis of upstream features on spatial networks (GIS Cup). In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, SIGSPATIAL '18, 622–625. New York, NY, USA, 2018. ACM. Winner (1st place). doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3274895.3276474.
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    • W. Randolph Franklin, Salles V. G. de Magalhães, and Marcus V. A. Andrade. Data structures for parallel spatial algorithms on large datasets (vision paper). In Proceedings of BigSpatial'18: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. Seattle, USA, 6 Nov 2018.
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    • W. Randolph Franklin, Salles V. G. de Magalhães, and Marcus V. A. Andrade. Exact fast parallel intersection of large 3-D triangular meshes (extended abstract). In 28th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. Queens College, CUNY, New York City, 26–27 Oct 2018.
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    • W. Randolph Franklin, Salles V. G. de Magalhães, and Marcus V. A. Andrade. Exact fast parallel intersection of large 3-D triangular meshes. In 27th International Meshing Roundtable. Alberqueque, New Mexico, 2 Oct 2018.
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    2017

    • W. Randolph Franklin. Applications of geometry. In Kenneth H Rosen, editor, Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, chapter 13.8, pages 998–1022. CRC Press, 2nd edition, 1 Dec 2017.
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  2. Professional summary

    1. Professor, ECSE Dept, RPI

    2. BSc (Toronto)

    3. AM, PhD, Applied Math (Harvard)

    4. Program Director, Numeric, Symbolic, and Geometric Computation Program, CISE, National Science Foundation, 2000—2002

    5. Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, 1985—1986

    6. Visiting positions at Genoa, Laval, CSIRO Canberra, National University of Singapore, 1992—1993.

    7. Visitor at Georgia Tech, 2016.

    8. GPG key

    9. Vcard

    10. Email: helloATwrfranklinDOTorg

  3. Brief Bio

  4. Long resume(Education - Professional Career - Publications - Presentations - Synergistic Activities and Service - Grad Students - Teaching or Course Development - Hardware Used - Professional Memberships - Major Research Grants), including postal address, email (GPG welcomed), phone

  5. Google scholar profile.

  6. Recent grants.

  7. Research

  8. Software

  9. Publications

  10. Awards

  11. RPI Articles

  12. Past students

  13. Advice

  14. Misc

  15. In favor of spatial computing contests